Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 13:44:46 -0700
Subject: Derrida: The Movie




just stumbled on this, perhaps most of you already know of it, a piece
of theatre, a piece of exceptional theatre, on derrida. "Derrida: The
Movie"


an arresting 20 meg clip from it, by itself a work of art, is
downloadable at:


http://www.derridathemovie.com/media.html


-k 


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Coming to a theatre near you....here's a snippet from the release
notes: 


"DERRIDA is a complex personal and theoretical portrait of the
internationally renowned French philosopher, Jacques Derrida. Best
known for generating a movement known as "deconstruction", Derrida's
radical rethinking of the founding precepts of Western metaphysics has
profoundly influenced the fields of literature, philosophy, ethics,
architecture and law, inalterably transforming the intellectual
landscape of the 20th and 21st centuries.


Produced with Derrida's full cooperation and consent, the film is the
most ambitious cinematic project ever undertaken with a world-class
philosopher. 


Initiated by Amy Ziering Kofman, who studied with Derrida at Yale in
the 80's, and co-directed by Kirby Dick and Ziering Kofman, DERRIDA is
neither a conventional film biography nor a primer on his thinking.
Rather, in the spirit of Derrida's own writing, the film investigates
the concept of biography itself and explores the nature and limitations
of the cinematic form in addressing philosophical thought. 


Through the interlacing of rare verite footage of Derrida in his
private life with his reflections on deconstruction, violence, the
structure of love, the history of philosophy, and the death of his
mother, the film raises questions about the relations between the
public and the private, the personal and the theoretical, the
biographical and the philosophical, becoming a rich and moving
meditation on both Derrida himself and the themes that haunt and
inspire his work."





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